All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.
You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.
I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.
Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.
Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.
Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
